Botticelli - November 2024

Thread Games
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  1. I am not Edward Gorey
  2. Take a DQ
  3. Take a DQ
82

DQs

  1. Real
  2. First name starts with “E”
  3. Male
  4. Surname begins “A” - “M”
  5. Deceased
  6. Known for the arts
  7. Not known for acting
  8. Died after 1900
  9. Known for literature
  10. Known for prose
83

DQs:

  1. Born after 1950?
  2. Known for a particular genre?
84

DQs

  1. Real
  2. First name starts with “E”
  3. Male
  4. Surname begins “A” - “M”
  5. Deceased
  6. Known for the arts
  7. Not known for acting
  8. Died after 1900
  9. Known for literature
  10. Known for prose
  11. Born before 1950
  12. Known for a particular genre
85

IQs:

  1. Were you “The Hammer of the Scots”?
  2. Are you the only person in the world to run 26.2 miles in under 2 hours?
  3. Did a pissed-off goddess punish you because you just wouldn’t stop talking?
86

IQs:

  1. Did you create Tarzan?
  2. Did you write the Spoon River Anthology?
  3. Are you the eponymous protagonist of a novel by Sinclair Lewis?
87

IQs:

  1. Did you once pitch a no-hitter while on LSD?
  2. Were you a supposed psychic who performed remote diagnoses?
  3. Were you the son of Harald Fairhair?
88

Previous IQs:

Did you create The Gashlycrumb Tinies? - Yes, Edward Gorey
Were you namechecked in a song by Mr. Banks in Mary Poppins? - King Edward VII, in “The Life I Lead” (“It’s grand to be an Englishman in 1910 / King Edward’s on the throne; it’s the age of men!..”)
Were you a noted Irish freedom-fighter in the 1790s? - Edward FitzGerald

Edward x3!

DQs:

American?
Best known for sf/fantasy?

IQs:

Were you portrayed as a crime-solving West Point cadet in a recent movie?
Did you spend an awful lot of time with Clyde Tolson?
Did you write Spoon River Anthology?

89
  1. I am not Edward Longshanks (Edward I?)
  2. Take a DQ
  3. I am not Echo
  1. I am not Edgar Rice Burroughs
  2. Take a DQ
  3. I am not… Elmer Gantry? (I’m not familiar with his other books)
  1. I am not Edgar Allen Poe! (It’s queued up on Netflix for me)
  2. Take a DQ
  3. N/A - Question asked by Prof. Pepperwinkle above
90

DQs

  1. Real
  2. First name starts with “E”
  3. Male
  4. Surname begins “A” - “M”
  5. Deceased
  6. Known for the arts
  7. Not known for acting
  8. Died after 1900
  9. Known for literature
  10. Known for prose
  11. Born before 1950
  12. Known for a particular genre
  13. US citizen (“American” is a broad term)
  14. Not known for sf/fantasy
91

@knoodler ahem.

92

Sorry! I thought I had you in queue.

  1. I am not Doc Ellis
  2. Take a DQ
  3. Take a DQ
93

No problem, just a gentle reminder.

Correct on #1 (though it’s Dock Ellis).
#2 was Edgar Cayce.
#3 was Erik Bloodaxe.

DQ: Best known for mystery or horror?

94

Correct, Edwin Arlington Robinson, correct.

DQ: Known for mysteries?

95

IQs:

  1. Did you write the Perry Mason mysteries?
  2. Did you write the Charlie Chan mysteries?
  3. Are you the pseudonym used by two writers of stories starring yourself?
96

Correct on 1 and 3. 2 is Eliud Kipchoge.

DQ: Died before 1980?

97
  1. I am not Earle Stanley Gardner
  2. I am not Earle… Van Deering? Earle something…
  3. Take a DQ

DQs

  1. Real
  2. First name starts with “E”
  3. Male
  4. Surname begins “A” - “M”
  5. Deceased
  6. Known for the arts
  7. Not known for acting
  8. Died after 1900
  9. Known for literature
  10. Known for prose
  11. Born before 1950
  12. Known for a particular genre
  13. US citizen
  14. Not known for sf/fantasy
  15. Not known for mystery/horror
  16. Died before 1980

@SunUp has a DQ reserved
@Prof.Pepperwinkle DQ was a duplicate question

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Previous IQs:

Were you portrayed as a crime-solving West Point cadet in a recent movie? - Yes, Edgar Allan Poe, in The Pale Blue Eye
Did you spend an awful lot of time with Clyde Tolson? - FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover (Tolson was his top aide, and they were long rumored to be lovers)
Did you write Spoon River Anthology? - Edgar Lee Masters (but yes, Prof. P. asked about him first)

Edgar x3!

DQ:

Greatest fame before 1950?

IQs:

Was your ship transformed to what we know as Venus?
Did you sleep under a red-and-white-checked quilt when you visited Oyster Bay?
Did you marry Mr. Knightley, but your hypochondriacal dad still lived with you?

99

IQs:

  1. Did you write Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  2. Were you sentenced to death for your part in the 1916 Easter Rising, but spared (thanks in part to your American citizenship) and later went on to become the Republic of Ireland’s second Taoiseach and third President?
  3. Did you say the mass of Englishmen live lives of quiet desperation?
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DQs

  1. Real
  2. First name starts with “E”
  3. Male
  4. Surname begins “A” - “M”
  5. Deceased
  6. Known for the arts
  7. Not known for acting
  8. Died after 1900
  9. Known for literature
  10. Known for prose
  11. Born before 1950
  12. Known for a particular genre
  13. US citizen
  14. Not known for sf/fantasy
  15. Not known for mystery/horror
  16. Died before 1980
  17. Greatest fame after 1950